Massachusetts officials released the first round of data from a registry of healthcare industry payments to physicians and hospitals in the Bay State, as mandated by its so-called “gift ban” law.
The Mass. Office of Health and Human Services released the disclosures from medical device, diagnostics, pharmaceutical and other firms that paid docs more than $50 for a variety of reasons. The law requires the companies to detail expenditures for product training programs, payment for seminars or lectures and meals. The first release covers July 1, 2009, through Dec. 31, 2009.
Massachusetts finalized the nation’s toughest rules governing gifts by medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical firms to physicians last March. But in the gubernatorial debates leading up to his victory earlier this month, Gov. Deval Patrick questioned whether the law deals properly with the medical device industry.
Here’s a breakdown of medical device, diagnostics and healthcare IT companies’ spend. In all, 161 companies paid out $16.6 million to 3,326 physicians during the last six months of 2009:
| Name | Subsidiaries | Total | Docs |
| 3M Co. | $12,088 | 39 | |
| Abbott Laboratories | $834,753 | 109 | |
| Abiomed Inc. | $7,500 | 3 | |
| Acclarent Inc. | $18,747 | 14 | |
| Acumed LLC | $1,375 | 1 | |
| Advanced BioHealing Inc. | $18,875 | 13 | |
| Advanced Bionics | $5,000 | 1 | |
| Aesculap Inc. | $5,477 | 6 | |
| Alcon Laboratories Inc. | $109,601 | 61 | |
| Alere Inc. (as Inverness Medical Innovations Inc.) | $11,502 | 7 | |
| Allergan Inc. | $966,616 | 102 | |
| American Medical Systems Inc. | $91,307 | 86 | |
| American Regent Inc. | $27,278 | 4 | |
| Animas Corp. | $41,843 | 40 | |
| Apatech Inc. | $8,787 | 2 | |
| Applied Medical Resources Corp. | $28,710 | 13 | |
| Arthrex Inc. | $171,784 | 27 | |
| ArthroCare Corp. | $1,291 | 1 | |
| Arthrosurface Inc. | $5,629 | 2 | |
| Ascent Healthcare Solutions | $1,674 | 5 | |
| Astra Tech Inc. | $172,633 | 11 | |
| Atos Medical Inc. | $1,500 | 1 | |
| Atrium Medical Corp. | $19,516 | 2 | |
| B. Braun Medical Inc. | $37,684 | 4 | |
| Bausch & Lomb Inc. | $7,628 | 13 | |
| Baxter Healthcare Corp. | $120,763 | 40 | |
| Beckman Coulter | $2,000 | 1 | |
| Becton Dickinson & Co. | $142,265 | 26 | |
| Bioform Medical Inc. | $328 | 4 | |
| Biomet | |||
| Biomet Microfixation LLC | $107,295 | 6 | |
| EBI LLC (Biomet Spine, Bracing) | $145,289 | 9 | |
| TOTAL | $252,584 | 15 | |
| Biosense Webster | $38,496 | 31 | |
| Biosphere Medical | $10,075 | 7 | |
| Biotronik Inc. | $92,775 | 57 | |
| Boston Scientific Corp. | $2,542,165 | 175 | |
| Brainlab Inc. | $225 | 3 | |
| C. R. Bard Inc. | $39,693 | 18 | |
| Cambridge Heart Inc. | $35,767 | 1 | |
| Carbomedics Inc. | $21,980 | 7 | |
| Cardiac Assist Inc. | $1,500 | 1 | |
| Carefusion Corp. | $58,519 | 17 | |
| Carestream Health Inc. | $872 | 4 | |
| Centinel Spine Inc. | $3,000 | 1 | |
| Ciba Vision Corp. | $96,547 | 130 | |
| Cochlear Americas | $67 | 1 | |
| Coloplast | $25,347 | 36 | |
| Concentric Medical Inc. | $66 | 1 | |
| Conceptus Inc. | $3,100 | 3 | |
| Conformis Inc. | $84,277 | 11 | |
| Conmed Corp. | $101,353 | 11 | |
| Convatec Inc. | $60,096 | 42 | |
| Cook Medical | $21,169 | 8 | |
| Covidien plc | |||
| Covidien | $161,678 | 46 | |
| Ev3 Inc. | $22,941 | 5 | |
| TOTAL | $184,619 | 51 | |
| Cyberonics Inc. | $2,335 | 3 | |
| Deltex Medical SC Inc. | $39,200 | 1 | |
| Dentsply International Inc. | $69,479 | 7 | |
| Disetronic Medical Systems Inc. | $91 | 1 | |
| DJO LLC | $276,989 | 8 | |
| Draeger Medical Systems Inc. | $2,000 | 2 | |
| Edwards Lifesciences LLC | $157,112 | 40 | |
| ELA Medical Inc. | $7,230 | 6 | |
| Endocare Inc. | $139,378 | 9 | |
| Etex Corp. | $15,000 | 1 | |
| Exactech Inc. | $101,459 | 4 | |
| Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc. | $786 | 9 | |
| Fresenius Medical Care | $27,300 | 1 | |
| Fujifilm Medical Systems Usa Inc. | $863 | 10 | |
| Gambro Renal Products Inc. | $1,500 | 3 | |
| General Electric Healthcare | $96,872 | 27 | |
| Given Imaging Inc. | $9,775 | 6 | |
| Healthpoint Ltd. | $1,014 | 13 | |
| Hill-Rom Inc. | $11,380 | 3 | |
| Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc. | $67 | 1 | |
| Hologic Inc. | $77,501 | 12 | |
| Hospira Inc. | $49,694 | 9 | |
| Hoya Photonics / Hoya Conbio | $4,000 | 1 | |
| Hutchinson Technology Inc. | $4,271 | 2 | |
| Insulet Corp. | $29,155 | 7 | |
| Integra Life Sciences Corp. | $55,362 | 14 | |
| Interlace Medical Inc. | $2,150 | 4 | |
| Intuitive Surgical Inc. | $64,728 | 25 | |
| Johnson & Johnson | |||
| Codman & Shurtleff Inc. | $45,897 | 21 | |
| Cordis Corp. | $59,455 | 53 | |
| Depuy Mitek Inc. | $185,180 | 46 | |
| Depuy Orthopaedics Inc. | $558,610 | 208 | |
| Depuy Spine Inc. | $160,921 | 43 | |
| Ethicon Endo-Surgery | $1,641,964 | 54 | |
| Ethicon Inc. | $79,560 | 39 | |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. | $12,872 | 26 | |
| Micrus Endovascular Corp. | $80,636 | 3 | |
| TOTAL | $2,825,095 | 493 | |
| K2M Inc. | $4,440 | 5 | |
| Karl Storz Endoskope | $84,849 | 6 | |
| KCI Usa | $9,510 | 8 | |
| Keystone Dental Inc. | $58,050 | 16 | |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. | $67,418 | 14 | |
| Lanx Inc. | $13,800 | 5 | |
| Lifecell Corp. | $325,874 | 6 | |
| Lumenis Inc. | $485,551 | 13 | |
| Mako Surgical Corp. | $759 | 4 | |
| Maquet Cardiovascular LLC | $500 | 1 | |
| Med-El Corp. | $99 | 1 | |
| Medtronic Inc. | |||
| ATS Medical | $110 | 1 | |
| Medtronic | $823,605 | 316 | |
| TOTAL | $823,715 | 317 | |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | $31,607 | 12 | |
| Microvention Inc. | $45,000 | 2 | |
| Mpathy Medical | $600 | 1 | |
| Neuronetics Inc. | $8,495 | 13 | |
| Neurotherm | $20,000 | 1 | |
| Nobel Biocare Usa LLC | $35,195 | 16 | |
| Novo Nordisk Inc. | $634,456 | 144 | |
| NxStage Medical Inc. | $20,892 | 3 | |
| Olea Medical | $2,500 | 1 | |
| Olympus Corp. | $63,912 | 25 | |
| Omniguide Inc. | $204 | 2 | |
| OraSure Technologies Inc. | $2,500 | 1 | |
| Organogenesis Inc. | $334,956 | 19 | |
| Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Inc. | $11,555 | 5 | |
| Orthofix Holdings Inc. | $146,963 | 4 | |
| OrthoPediatrics Corp. | $5,437 | 1 | |
| Orthovita Inc. | $414 | 1 | |
| Otto Bock Healthcare Lp | $435 | 3 | |
| Palomar Medical Technologies Inc. | $55,600 | 4 | |
| Phadia Us Inc. | $4,000 | 7 | |
| Philips Health Of North America | $59,774 | 10 | |
| Pioneer Surgical Technology | $4,716 | 4 | |
| Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc., | $119,803 | 52 | |
| Rs Medical | $738 | 9 | |
| Salient Surgical Technologies Inc. | $15,150 | 4 | |
| Senorx Inc. | $5,500 | 1 | |
| Smith & Nephew Inc. | $554,794 | 46 | |
| Sorin Group Usa Inc. | $245 | 1 | |
| Spectranetics Corp. | $48,091 | 14 | |
| Spine Wave Inc. | $76 | 1 | |
| Spiration Inc. | $1,050 | 1 | |
| Spirus Medical Inc. | $11,485 | 2 | |
| St. Jude Medical Inc. | |||
| Amplatzer Medical Sales Corp. | $52,200 | 6 | |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division Inc. | $364,986 | 203 | |
| TOTAL | $52,200 | 6 | |
| Sterilmed Inc. | $3,573 | 4 | |
| Straumann Manufacturing Inc. | $34,915 | 7 | |
| Stryker Corp. | $415,830 | 125 | |
| Superdimension Inc. | $2,030 | 2 | |
| Syneron Inc. | |||
| Candela Corp. | $30,824 | 6 | |
| Syneron | $19,357 | 1 | |
| TOTAL | $30,824 | 6 | |
| Synovis Life Technologies Inc. | $7,000 | 2 | |
| Synthes Inc. | $290,539 | 34 | |
| Sysmex America Inc. | $418 | 4 | |
| TEI Biosciences Inc. | $4,600 | 3 | |
| Teleflex Medical | $1,582 | 2 | |
| The Anspach Effort Inc. | $3,200 | 3 | |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific | $1,067 | 4 | |
| Thoratec Corp. | $14,287 | 15 | |
| Trans1 Inc. | $4,783 | 3 | |
| Urologix Inc. | $938 | 12 | |
| Uroplasty Inc. | $4,463 | 1 | |
| Varian Medical Systems Inc. | $11,660 | 2 | |
| Vascular Solutions Inc. | $1,000 | 1 | |
| Ventana Medical Systems Inc. | $2,319 | 5 | |
| Vertiflex Inc. | $12,170 | 1 | |
| W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. | $57,598 | 25 | |
| Wright Medical Technology Inc. | $332,793 | 21 | |
| Zimmer Inc. | $217,291 | 36 | |
| Zoll Medical Corp. | $26,385 | 1 |
